Sunnyvale public safety unit reports flat five‑year bike/ped trends; cites enforcement, education and data limits

Lieutenant Juan Glazo of the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety presented the commission with a five‑year summary of collisions involving pedestrians and cyclists and described the department’s enforcement and education plan.

Glazo told commissioners the department recorded roughly the same level of severe bicycle and pedestrian injuries over the period reviewed and stressed the unit’s three priorities: “engineering, education, and enforcement.” He said 2024 figures were compiled from electronic citation data and are therefore best‑effort estimates, because paper citations cannot be reliably exported from the city’s current system.

Why it matters: the numbers underlie the city’s Vision Zero goals and shape where staff prioritize limited enforcement and engineering resources. Commissioners pressed staff for clarity on causes, enforcement coverage and whether recent engineering changes had reduced close calls.

The department reported enforcement and complaint totals: 4,363 moving‑violation citations issued across the department; 90 citations to cyclists for signal or stop violations; eight pedestrian jaywalking citations; and a rise in traffic…